By Charlotte Hendrix
Auburn University
The first in an emerging series, “Radical Naturalism – Tommy Coleman: A New Nature and my Problem With the Vessel,” is on view at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University through Sunday, July 26.
The inaugural exhibition features new drawings and sculptures by Coleman and a sculptural configuration of 16 Audubon etchings. Auburn’s Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Audubon Collection includes 120 prints from “The Double Elephant Folio” publication “Birds of America” and the three-volume set of the “Vivaporous Quadrupeds of North America.”
Through “Radical Naturalism,” the museum invites contemporary artists inspired by the natural world to research the university’s Audubon collection and others across campus to engage with, question and critique John James Audubon’s evolving legacy. The 19th-century artist dedicated his life to hunting and trapping North American specimens, documenting the species of birds, insects and plants that he encountered.
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